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Amikinont’amanonamikit’ama
È il Dio degli amori non corrisposti, quello che si diverte a combinare in infiniti incontri sbagliati tutte le possibili infelicità e le possibili disperazioni.
Erano intelligenti, le loro menti erano già disciplinate alla chiarezza della scienza, e avevano sedici anni.
There’s only one rule I know of
(via giraa)
Scott-Heron, Gil - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
(Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron
(via crookedindifference)
(Fonte: internerd)
Having an adventure is a sign that something unexpected, something unprovided against, has
happened; it shows that some one is incompetent, that something
has gone wrong. For that reason we pride ourselves on the fewness
An adventure is interesting enough in retrospect,
especially to the person who didn’t have it
——
in retrospettiva un’avventura è abbastanza interessante,
specie per chi non la ha vissuta.
Vilhjálmur Stefánsson MY LIFE WITH THE ESKIMO (166)
citato da Geoffrey A. Landis in Mars Crossing
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody.
(La cosa peggiore che ci possa capitare è che nessuno si serva di noi per qualche cosa.)
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night
Ursula K. LeGuin - il linguaggio della notte
(via awaitanothervoice)
- The Queen of the Sciences - Eric Temple Bell
citato in “Cities in Flight” di James Blish
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
- Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com
The desire to befriend him came over me suddenly and certainly, and, as I debated and decided not to shake his hand again, I thought how suddenness and certainty had attended all my childhood friendships, until that long, miserable moment of puberty during which I’d been afraid to befriend boys and seemingly unable to befriend girls.
